Rapper Nas attacks Fox News for "racist propaganda"

Fox News
has been slammed as a "racist propaganda machine" by rapper Nas, who's written
an entire song about the channel. He yesterday tried to deliver 620,000
signatures to Fox owners News Corp from webusers who believe the network to be anti-black and
unfair to Obama. But the petition was refused.

A string of
offensive comments and "slips of the tongue" have landed Fox in trouble since
the US
presidential campaign kicked off. Last month they called Obama's wife a
"baby-mama", and before that had labelled the couple's affectionate fist bump
as a "terrorist fist jab". Obama was once "accidentally" called Osama and is regularly
called by his full name - Barack Hussein
Obama".

Although
the Rupert Murdoch owned channel apologised for many of these occasions, an
online petition against its "racist and hate-filled smears" managed to attract
620,137 signatures. Organised by activist groups MoveOn.org and
ColorofChange.org, Nas went to the New
York headquarters on Wednesday to deliver the 20
crates of signed papers, but was refused. He made a speech in front of the
building saying that the network "poisons the country with racist propaganda
and tries to call it news." They responded that "Fox News believes in all
protesters exercising their right to free speech including Nas who has an album
to promote".

The first song
on the album is about Fox. "Watch what you watchin', Fox keeps feeding us
toxins ... I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth, not the biased
truth, not the liar's truth," he says.

"Fox is not a news network"

When Nas
was refused delivery of the 620,000 signatures, he made this speech outside
their New York HQ. Posted by "bestofbo" on
23 July 08.

"We need Fox to balance out all the other pro-Obama media"

Jim
Wilkinson is a Fox News fan and Republican supporter from Texas.

I spend a
lot of time watching Fox News, and I don't think it's biased at all. Everybody
talked about the turban thing. But he was wearing a turban! He's the one who put
himself in those positions that Fox talks about. If he didn't want people to
see him wearing a turban, he shouldn't have done it.

Also, Fox
is the only network that treats both candidates equally. It's other media like
CNN who are biased, spending all their time talking about Obama. The liberals
in this country are always trying to quieten the conservative side. But they
won't succeed. We need Fox to balance out all the other pro-Obama media."

"Fox attacks: Black America"

Fox Attacks
is a website dedicated to criticising Fox News for its "distorted" coverage. The
video was produced by Brave New Films, an
organisation that uses citizen produced media to "challenge corporate media".

"Fox has nothing against the good kind black people"

The website
23/6 posted this parody of Fox's response
to the attacks. Posted 25 July 08.

"I challenge you to show me a single racist attack in Fox News coverage"

Nas appeared on Comedy Central's faux talking head show The Colbert Report, where he was "grilled" by the show's satirical host for thinking that Fox could possibly be racist. Seeing as they weren't accepted by Fox, Nas is sitting on the boxes of signatures that were collected. The video of the interview is on The Raw Story website.

Comments

I think your eyes or brain or something may be damaged, Mr Wilkinson, if you can't tell that Fox is plainly full of shit. Mind you, you're comparing it with CNN's 'liberal' bias (as if any company owned by a capitalist behemoth like Turner could be mistaken for liberal), so I see what you mean — you obviously prefer your frenzied fearmongering and vicious right-wing propaganda completely unfettered by rationality, logic or truth…

"The liberals in this country are always trying to quieten the conservative side."

Quieten, yes, but only because you're all loud and annoying. Nobody would mind Rush if he was a bit quieter, but he's not, he's a loud, obnoxious swine. You missed out the second part of the statement, too: "Conservatives, on the other hand, have long been trying to utterly discredit and destroy the liberal side with crazed rhetoric and wild-eyed jabberings about Commies, terrrrrists and unpatriotic behaviour through their almost total control of the media." Do you see the difference?

Funny how so emotional and hateful liberals like Steve get when challenged by our conservative points-of-view. Seldom do we see Conservatives spewing vulgarity, name-callilng and gutter talk when defining a point...but that kind of thing seems to be the norm for those who live on left side of reality. Steve and others who can't see the blatant bias of CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS deserves our sympathy. They seem to be existing in a downward vacuum of jealousy and contempt. Further, they fail to recognize the greatness of an individual...instead, they put their trust in a compelling (usually socialist type) government. I doubt sincerely if Steve is even an American so I really can't get much past whatever point he was trying to make....other than his demonstrative disregard for fact, truth and unbiased news reporting.